GamesRadar+ Verdict
A curious, frightful take on childhood trauma that whips up scares from the most seemingl🌼y mundane sources. Among the Sleep is unpolished and scrappy, yet eerily m🦩emorable.
Pros
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Effectively captures a child's view of the world
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Monster sections drip with tension
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A cleverly observed
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cutely designed world
Cons
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Distracting lag and fps problems
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Puzzles can be insultingly straightforward
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One note and never terribly exciting
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Being a baby should be brilliant. You sleep all day, play with toys for the few hours you're awake, and are free to soil yourself as much as you'd like. Being a baby in Among the Sleep is not brilliant. Actually, it's downright spooky. This formerly PC crowdfunded indie has just waddled onto PS4 and Xbox One, and places you into the adorable PJs of a precocious💧 toddler who's both adept at dragging furniture around to help solve gentle environmental puzzles and prone to traumatic daydreams. And it's the latter that informs the constantly unsettling tone of this unpolished, if occasionally charming, infantile quest.
Among the Sleep is a two-to-three hour exploration-heavy adventure laced with horror elements that you can comfortably polish off in a single sitting. Much of the game’s appeal stems from baby’s un🎃ique way of moving. While he can technically stand upright and gingerly bundle about, it's far quicker to drop on hands and knees and crawl. Seeing as you're a tiny child and not a hardened space marine, anything but the most rudimentary interactions are off the menu. You can grab onto toys, chairs and other objects to help traverse the toddler's house, yet jumping or any sort of graceful traversal is appropriately absent.
Things start off innocently enough. It's your birthday and mother dearest is cooing over her darling boy - here, have some cake! Of course, proceedings soon turn sinister and it's not long until a mysterious knock at the door kick starts a🌼 chain of events that see the brave youngster take on the darkest recesses of his imagination while he searches for his missing mama.
What follows is a dreamy (ok, nightmarish) trek into childhood fear, where even the most humdrum of household objects are painted as h🦋orrifying landmarks in an alien environment. Among the Sleep cannily plays on 𒁃ideas of skewed perspective to make you feel genuinely tiny. With its low-hanging camera, towering tables and kitchen cabinets, venturing into each new room is like being dropped into Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
To help baby get through his nightmare in one piece, Among the Sleep gives you an companion early on in the adventure: a sentient, talking teddy bear. Teddy is a quizzical soul, and will o♑ften comment on your surroundings. Mechanically, he also acts as a glorified lamp - hug him to brighten up your home's dimmest corners. At key junctures, Teddy also opens up a special door, which isജ powered by various objects of sentimental value your infant seeks out during the quest.
